The Wauchope Mausoleum

The Wauchope Mausoleum is a single-storey tomb house dating from 1735 and enclosing a grave slab which dates from 1587. It was part of Niddrie House which was demolished in around 1968. The Mausoleum is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and is Listed at Category 'B'.

The Mausoleum was visited by around 300 people when it was open for Doors Open Day on the 25 September 2010, and a further 200 people on Doors Open Day on 24 September 2011 .

You can download the Wauchope Mausoleum Conservation Plan or a shorter information leaflet about the Wauchope Mausoleum.

This is a transcript of the inscribed panel in the Mausoleum:

In Memory of Mrs Helen Hume daughter of Lord Kimmerghame CJS who lived upwards of 45 years a virtuous affectionate and complacent wife to Andrew Wauchope of Niddrie Marischal and bore to him thirteen children whom she reared in the tenderest affection unperverted by partial fondness or improper indulgence. She was mild benevolent social and cheerful without artifice and without disguise. Her person well formed and agreeable corresponded to the purity of her mind by its constant neatness maintained without affectation of ornament. She secured by temperance an uniform course of good health and when at last attacked by disease tho' she would have been content for the sake of her husband and family to live sometime longer yet finding her dissolution approach she with perfect submission to the Divine will and in testimony of a conscience void of offence calmly quitted her mortal frame without emotion or complaint. She died on 10th Sept 1780 at Bath where by her desire her body is interred.